Hidden inside sapele sit asleep, elapse, please and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asleep, elapse, please and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sapele at 8 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in sapele: three come from rearranging its letters, and sapele itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep and please. For points, the strongest plays are asleep, elapse, please, and sapele — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sapele. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaps, lease, peels, and sleep. For points, the strongest plays are lapse, leaps, pales, peals, pease, peels, peles, pleas, salep, sepal, sleep, spale, and speel — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sapele produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ease, else, laps, leap, pals, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apse, laps, leap, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, peel, pees, pele, plea, salp, seep, slap, and spae — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sapele turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap, pal, pea, pee, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, asp, lap, pal, pas, pea, pee, pes, sap, and spa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sapele. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in sapele and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
sapele is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
sapele is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sapele unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asleep, elapse, please, and sapele, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sapele earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in sapele produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.